| Learn how to leverage JDBC, a key Java technology used to access relational data from Java programs, in an Oracle environment. Author Donald Bales begins by teaching you the mysteries of establishing database connections, and how to issue SQL queries and get results back. You'll move on to advanced topics such as streaming large objects, calling PL/SQL procedures, and working with Oracle9i's object-oriented features, then finish with a look at transactions, concurrency management, and performance.
Oracle is the write-once-run-anywhere database. Since the mid-1980s, Oracle has been available on almost every operating system. With the release of Oracle RDBMS Version 6, you could develop a database schema on your desktop knowing it could be implemented unchanged on multiple large-scale platforms. With the release of Oracle7, stored procedures could be written using PL/SQL, and once again, these could be ported to any supported operating system. Oracle8 brought object orientation, and Oracle8i brought internal support for Java . These releases represent 15-plus years of demonstrated commitment by Oracle Corporation to make Oracle the write-once-run-anywhere database. But platform independence alone did not make Oracle the dominant database in the marketplace. |